Duplicating files

[MMacD]

I'd like to be able to add multiple copies of the same file to a dvd burn, so that if something damages one area of the disc, I can still read from another.

 

There doesn't seem to be any way to do that.  The "optimise duplicates" is already turned off, yet when I try to add the second copy (a subtree full of font files) it helpfully tells me that the directory already exists.  It would be yet helpfuller were there a "do it anyway" checkbox.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

If you're using standard imput mode, you'd need multiple copies of that folder (obviously they'd then have different names) on your hdd.

 

If you're using advanced input mode, it's pretty easy. Just add it once, rename the one in the 'Disc' pane, add it again, rename again, add again etc etc.

[MMacD]

It'd be nicer to have the checkbox.   

[LIGHTNING UK!]

That would do what? Add the same thing with the same name twice? It's impossible.

 

If you want multiple copies of the same thing, you have to rename them yourself.

[MMacD]

Not really.  ImgBurn itself could modify the name(s) in the usual way editors do when saving a backup history:  append .1, .2 etc.  Enormously more convenient for the human.  Or, to be really posh, allow the human to select the garnish.  In my case, since I was already using a dot, I'd have chosen an underscore: fonts.type1, fonts.type1_2, fonts.type1_3, etc.

Edited February 26, 2013 by MMacD